My first coffee development

[Marsopa]

A few lines to show my first "coffee" development, just done as an entertainement. (600 ml water, 8 sp coffee, 5 sp sodium carbonate, Ilford hp5+ @800ASA, I know is not the best starting point but it was a testing roll I've done trying hip shots):

Original color cast:

 

[Sparrow]

That’s very good for the first go, I get bags more grain than that

 

[Al Kaplan]

Somebody should do a test on different brands of coffee, and with Folgers and Maxwell House now marketing various blends, Starbucks and other premium bblends on the shelves, fresh roasted but not yet ground vs. canned, etc., this should be as important as choosing Rodinal or D-76.

 

[Keith]

Somebody should do a test on different brands of coffee, and with Folgers and Maxwell House now marketing various blends, Starbucks and other premium bblends on the shelves, fresh roasted but not yet ground vs. canned, etc., this should be as important as choosing Rodinal or D-76.

I find that I need a little less sugar in my Rodinal Al ... not quite as bitter as the D-76!

 

[Sparrow]

Fresh ground Espressonol



sorry SLR image

 

[russianRF]

This thread is awesome. 🙂 I did some cafinol experiments myself . . . but not nearly as carefully. I just brewed some over-strong coffee, put in some washing soda (*not* baking soda), and developed as regular.

Still, this thread is awesome.

 

[cam]

you can really develop with coffee???

seriously, excuse my ignorance. i'm about to get my first film M and was planning on using XP2 so i could take it somewhere for quick and dirty developing.... but if i could do it at home with coffee, this could be a hoot! beginner pics only, so i don't think i'll be flubbing up any masterpieces.

can somebody point me towards the real recipe and dummy directions?

thank you.

 

[Al Kaplan]

It would only work properly with traditional films. not C-41 films.

 

[Sparrow]

you can really develop with coffee???

seriously, excuse my ignorance. i'm about to get my first film M and was planning on using XP2 so i could take it somewhere for quick and dirty developing.... but if i could do it at home with coffee, this could be a hoot! beginner pics only, so i don't think i'll be flubbing up any masterpieces.

can somebody point me towards the real recipe and dummy directions?

thank you.

That of mine was:

3 double espressos
2 tbl spoons washing soda
320ml water

10 min pre-soak
30 min starting at about 35c then allowed to cool, agitating every 2.5 min

stopped with a bit of de-scalar, fixed with hypo


now I would start at 22c and stand for 60min agitating after 30min, or better yet get Keith’s recipe as it’s a lot better than mine.

 

[Sparrow]

It would only work properly with traditional films. not C-41 films.

I tried a drop on a film leader (Fuji superia) and actually it did develop it

EDIT

as you were, that pic was paracetamol, coffee did work however

 

[cam]

It would only work properly with traditional films. not C-41 films.

ah, but i'd much rather use trad film. FP4, HP5, and Tri-X all rock my boat 😛

That of mine was:

3 double espressos
2 tbl spoons washing soda
320ml water

10 min pre-soak
30 min starting at about 35c then allowed to cool, agitating every 2.5 min

stopped with a bit of de-scalar, fixed with hypo


now I would start at 22c and stand for 60min agitating after 30min, or better yet get Keith’s recipe as it’s a lot better than mine.

thank you, sparrow! this will all be an interesting experiment!

 

[cam]

Has anybody tried prints in cafenol?

had to check if you were teasing me or not (i am such a beginner at this!) but it seems you're not.

 

[shadowfox]

I like the one with the color cast 🙂

How long did you develop it? agitation?

 

[Faintandfuzzy]

Man...I gotta try this!

 

[cam]

Bien sur que non!

Check "all threads started by Keith". He seems to have had the most success with this stuff, check his gallery too, he scanned some negs in colour and got some strange and interesting tones.

thank you, doll face! will do.

 

[Keith]

thank you, doll face! will do.

Check out this link Cam ... this was my very first cafenol effort. Strangely I've never been able to quite replicate the weird and wonderful results I got here! 😛 http://wheelie52.zenfolio.com/p242991481/slideshow

 

[cam]

Check out this link Cam ... this was my very first cafenol effort. Strangely I've never been able to quite replicate the weird and wonderful results I got here! 😛 http://wheelie52.zenfolio.com/p242991481/slideshow

how great is that -- wow! (and what lens?) just great fun!!!

it seems that i'm being told to start with XP by my mate who isn't really keen on trying to find a portion of our already small apartment.... my fault, really. i moved into a bachelor's apartment with all my girly stuff 😛

 

[Svitantti]

I think (and am pretty sure) that any developer that works with traditional should pretty much work with any film (even C41 color negs or E6 slides or Kodachromes) because they all have pretty much same kind of silver stuff in them, that can be developed to a B&W negative with a B&W developer.

 

[calexg]

VERY cool! I've always wanted to try that out. Looks excellent for the first go! Can't wait to try it myself!

 

[Marsopa]

Thank you for your comments...

you can really develop with coffee???

seriously, excuse my ignorance. i'm about to get my first film M and was planning on using XP2 so i could take it somewhere for quick and dirty developing.... but if i could do it at home with coffee, this could be a hoot! beginner pics only, so i don't think i'll be flubbing up any masterpieces.

can somebody point me towards the real recipe and dummy directions?

thank you.

In fact you could develop with any substance that can reduce silver halides to metallic silver.... I wouldn't use this process instead using a commercial (or commercial self made), complexity is exactly the same, prices aren't high enough to discard them and results using this homebrew coffee based developer could lack reproducibility/control/quality.... it's nice as enterteinment, demonstration or curiosity.

The recipe I've used is similar to the one mentioned before in the thread.

I like the one with the color cast 🙂

How long did you develop it? agitation?

Thanks... with respect agitation more or less were some inversitios each ten minutes...

Bien sur que non!

Check "all threads started by Keith". He seems to have had the most success with this stuff, check his gallery too, he scanned some negs in colour and got some strange and interesting tones.

It was one thread started by Keith (woman portraits) that encouraged me to try that process...

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